On Wed, May 26 2021, Matheus Tavares wrote: > t2080 makes a few copies of a test repository and later performs a > branch switch on each one of the copies to verify that parallel checkout > and sequential checkout produce the same results. However, the > repository is copied with `cp -R` which, on some systems, defaults to > following symlinks on the directory hierarchy and copying their target > files instead of copying the symlinks themselves. AIX is one example of > system where this happens. Because the symlinks are not preserved, the > copied repositories have paths that do not match what is in the index, > causing git to abort the checkout operation that we want to test. This > makes the test fail on these systems. > > Fix this by copying the repository with the POSIX flag '-P', which > forces cp to copy the symlinks instead of following them. Note that we > already use this flag for other cp invocations in our test suite (see > t7001). With this change, t2080 now passes on AIX. > > Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@xxxxxx> > --- > t/t2080-parallel-checkout-basics.sh | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/t/t2080-parallel-checkout-basics.sh b/t/t2080-parallel-checkout-basics.sh > index 7087818550..3e0f8c675f 100755 > --- a/t/t2080-parallel-checkout-basics.sh > +++ b/t/t2080-parallel-checkout-basics.sh > @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ do > > test_expect_success "$mode checkout" ' > repo=various_$mode && > - cp -R various $repo && > + cp -R -P various $repo && > > # The just copied files have more recent timestamps than their > # associated index entries. So refresh the cached timestamps Thanks for the quick fix, I can confirm that this makes the test pass on AIX 7.2.
